Creating fashionable metal and wire jewelry is easy, enjoyable and requires only inexpensive tools. In no time at all you will find yourself working with aluminum, copper and pewter to fashion accessories that coordinate beautifully with your wardrobe. Then, advance to creating faux surfaces like enamel. These designs are perfect focal pieces for existing beaded necklaces you may already have in your jewelry collection, or try working with Rubber Stamps. You can't make a mistake!

The Professional Bead Roller makes creating uniform beads easy and fun Make striking beads and learn how to design focal pendants.

Hand-made jewellery is always in style. So why not go one step further and make your own beads? Polymer clay is the material of choice and you will learn how to use free-form techniques and bead-rolling tools to create several styles. Sculpted effects, simulations of semi-precious stones, photo-image transfers and use of glitter and organic material mean the beads you make will be unique. All the tools you will need are listed, and finishing techniques, such as sanding, buffing and sealing, are described. Detailed instructions on how to use your own work to create stylish and individual pieces of jewellery, including necklaces, bracelets and earrings are also included. Basic techniques, such as stringing and fixing clasps, lead on to assembling all the components in designs and styles ranging from contemporary and elegant to simple and plain fun. Beginners and more advanced practitioners alike will find both practical advice and plenty of inspiration.

Decorative knotting has long been used as a way to make bracelets - and now you can use this technique with parachute cord, also known as paracord. Paracord was first used in World War II and is now used as a general-purpose utility cord, but it has also been adopted by crafters, such as Linda Peterson. Available in a wide range of colours, including some with an attractive metallic effect, it's perfect for knotting and braiding to make durable yet pretty items. The projects here include jewellery, but also accessories - among them a belt, mobile phone pouch and watch. You can even make dog collars! Linda teaches you how to get started with paracord crafting by outlining the basic techniques - step-by-step photography explains macrame and other decorative knots. Then move onto three chapters of fabulous projects: Knotty Designs, with simple ideas for necklaces, bracelets and earrings, to become familiar with the techniques; For the Guys, showcasing more masculine (but unisex) designs; and Mixing It Up, where you can combine paracord with other materials such as beads and fabric.

Believe it or not, you can create beautiful beaded projects, from a fabulous array of jewelry to striking home decor in only a matter of minutes The time-saving secret is in the double-sided tape and micro beads

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) had a wide-ranging and prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, over fifty short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. As the self-styled 'general utility woman' for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, often contributing both fiction and literary reviews to the same issue, she became a major critical voice for her generation. Her influence, usually cast on the side of 'the common reader', was such that it provoked fellow novelists such as Anthony Trollope, Henry James and Thomas Hardy to savage fictional portraits by way of retaliation. The scholarly interest that her work now receives is hampered by difficulty in accessing the full range of her oeuvre: whilst her most famous fictional series, 'The Chronicles of Carlingford', together with a handful of her tales of the supernatural, have gone in and out of print in recent years, the bulk of her fiction and critical writing remains uncollected. This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's work ever undertaken.

In a small, barren West Texas town, an extraordinary young woman is about to begin asserting her independence away from her abusive childhood home where many secrets lie deeply hidden within its walls.

In a town where the favorite pastime is gossiping, nineteen-year-old Sienna continually dreams of the day when she will be able to leave for good. When she falls in love with Rick Brown, a handsome and ambitious young man from a neighboring town, Sienna is convinced she must conceal her long-held secrets in order to keep the man she adores. As Rick seeks to make his mark in the television industry, Sienna's clandestine past is revealed along with the surprising announcement that she is pregnant with his child. Rick chooses his career over romance, leaving a devastated Sienna behind. Forced to live in a beat-up trailer next to the town's tavern, Sienna vows to provide her child with the loving home she never had.

Even when her world is turned upside down, Sienna never gives up on her dream to leave both Justice and her past behind as she begins a journey to seek her destiny and the family she was meant to have.

In a small, barren West Texas town, an extraordinary young woman is about to begin asserting her independence away from her abusive childhood home where many secrets lie deeply hidden within its walls.

In a town where the favorite pastime is gossiping, nineteen-year-old Sienna continually dreams of the day when she will be able to leave for good. When she falls in love with Rick Brown, a handsome and ambitious young man from a neighboring town, Sienna is convinced she must conceal her long-held secrets in order to keep the man she adores. As Rick seeks to make his mark in the television industry, Sienna's clandestine past is revealed along with the surprising announcement that she is pregnant with his child. Rick chooses his career over romance, leaving a devastated Sienna behind. Forced to live in a beat-up trailer next to the town's tavern, Sienna vows to provide her child with the loving home she never had.

Even when her world is turned upside down, Sienna never gives up on her dream to leave both Justice and her past behind as she begins a journey to seek her destiny and the family she was meant to have.

Harriet Martineau lived an extraordinary literary life. She became a reviewer and journalist in the 1820s when her family's fortune collapsed; published a best-selling series, Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-34), that made her fame and fortune by the age of thirty; overcame a hearing disability to become a "literary lion" in London society; toured the United States and wrote two founding texts of sociology based on her experiences; explored north Africa and the Middle East to observe non-European societies; wrote "leaders" (editorials) on slavery for the London Daily News during the American Civil War; and commented publicly on matters of politics, history, and religion in an era when women supposedly maintained their place in the sphere of domesticity.This edition of her Autobiography reproduces the original 1877 text, which Martineau composed in 1855 and had printed in anticipation of her death. It includes illustrations of the author and her homes; excerpts from the "Memorials," added by her editor Maria Chapman; and reviews that praise and critique Martineau's method as an autobiographer and achievement as a Victorian woman of letters.